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Voodoo3 + Win2k = grid of dots on the screen

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Knutsaq

IS-IT--Management
May 28, 2001
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CA
Ok guys here's another good one.

I've got a box here that was giving us some issues, so we recently swapped the motherboard and reformatted and installed Win2k.

After the Win2k SP1 install, there's a grid of black dots on the screen that come and go, and often disappear when you maximize and minimize a window. I've tried the default Win2K driver, 3dfx version 1.04 and the x3dfx Beta driver. All of them exhibit the same problem. If I load the system into safe mode, it doesn't have this problem. We've tried every resolution, color depth and refresh combination that we can think of. Oh, its running on a NEC XE21 monitor.

The weirdest part is that I have another IDENTICAL box beside it that ir running like a top. It has a 3dfx drive dated Jan, 2000 that I can't find a copy of.

Any thoughts?
Knutsaq.
 
I had the same problem, turned out to be a bad RAM stick. Swapped it out and it worked like a charm
 
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